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In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.

Transactional, litigation and regulatory advice for companies with government business and strategic technologies.

Today’s complex, dynamic defense and homeland security environment requires businesses to redefine their relationships with governmental authorities. In this time of changing priorities, new regulations, emerging threats and untapped opportunities, companies need trusted advisors to guide them. WilmerHale’s Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice brings together the experience, skill and judgment needed to navigate this challenging terrain.

Our team is devoted to representing clients in the defense, technology, life sciences and other industries on matters relating to national security and doing business with the US government. In its December 2013 issue, Washingtonian magazine named four of WilmerHale's lawyers to the "Top Lawyers" list in the category of national security.

With extensive experience serving in senior national security posts in federal agencies, our lawyers provide regulatory, legislative and transactional advice to companies that supply products and services to governmental customers and to clients whose commercial operations or strategic development are affected by changing security requirements and policies. We also advise clients in government enforcement actions, federal court litigation, government contracts litigation, bid protests and other contested proceedings.

Transactional, litigation and regulatory advice for companies with government business and strategic technologies.

Today’s complex, dynamic defense and homeland security environment requires businesses to redefine their relationships with governmental authorities. In this time of changing priorities, new regulations, emerging threats and untapped opportunities, companies need trusted advisors to guide them. WilmerHale’s Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice brings together the experience, skill and judgment needed to navigate this challenging terrain.

Experience

Our Defense, National Security and Government Contracts lawyers draw on wisdom and experience gained through senior positions in the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the White House and numerous other agencies.

Our team includes:

a former General Counsel of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency

a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing

a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

a former Deputy Attorney General and member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) and Central Intelligence Agency's National Security Advisory Panel

former General Counsels to the Director of National Intelligence and Federal Bureau of Investigation

two former Assistant Attorneys General

a former Solicitor General of the United States

a former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury

Our practice also draws on the wisdom, talent and energy of colleagues who have held a variety of other military and civilian federal agency positions.

Publications & News

Yesterday President Trump signed two Proclamations that impose 25 and 10 percent tariffs on imports of certain steel and aluminum products, respectively, other than those imported from Canada and Mexico.

As the #MeToo movement gains momentum, companies in nearly every major industry are dealing with allegations of gender discrimination, sexual harassment or even sexual assault—including allegations of widespread misconduct and inappropriate behavior within the upper echelons of the corporate structure.

On February 28, 2018, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced a new Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Initiative (SHWI) that will focus on combating workplace sexual harassment in the public sector.

This past year, which marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA"), demonstrated that the FCPA continues to be a powerful tool in combating corruption abroad and encouraging compliance at global companies.

Under the Department of Defense (DoD) final Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement rule on Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services, DoD contractors maintaining, processing, or otherwise possessing “covered defense information” on their own systems must now be compliant with the technical, physical, and administrative security controls outlined in National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication (SP) 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations, as the “grace period” for compliance ended on December 31, 2017.

The US Departments of the Treasury and Commerce implemented President Trump's June 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum that was designed to tighten restrictions on individual travel to Cuba and on dealings with Cuban military-related entities.

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.